Five of the best face swap apps

Will 2016 go down in history as the year we failed to heed the warning about artificial intelligence overthrowing humanity one stone at a time, because we were distracted by swapping faces with our friends, our pets or nearby breasts? Face-swapping apps aren't actually new – several have been around since 2013 – but they have become this year's mobile craze, in a lineage that includes Draw Something, Dubsmash, Flappy Bird, FatBooth and (in the earliest days of Apple's App Store) virtual pint-drinking and lightsaber apps. The craze may only last as long as it takes for the next novelty app genre to emerge, but in the meantime, here are five apps for giving face-swapping a go. App crazes may come and go, but tech startups shunning vowels is a trend that will never die. Masquerade) made headlines this month when it was acquired by Facebook less than three months after launching.